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THE BOAT

By Young-Nam KIM

MIROVISION / STUDIO BONANZA - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2009

Two young men, from Korea and Japan, involved in the smuggling industry in Japan find their own freedom in the cruel reality of despair and betrayal.

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- KOREA (South), JAPAN
- Languages
- KOREAN, JAPANESE
- Duration
- 114 mn
- Director(s)
- Young-Nam KIM
- Writer(s)
- Aya WATANABE
- Cast
- Jung-Woo HA, Satoshi TSUMABUKI
- Producer(s)
- Juno LEE (1), Osamu KUBOTA (2)
- Synopsis
- Hyung-gu, a young Korean, visits Japan by boat three or four times a month to help with middle-aged Bo-gyung’s smuggling business. It is always Touru, a young Japanese man, who welcomes him there. Hyung-gu and Touru sacrifice themselves for the sake of their families, money, and friendship. One day, Bo-gyung ordered them to kidnap a woman named Jisu and take her to Japan, and this changes their future in an unexpected way. Hyung-gu, having met Touru, suddenly feels responsible for his family. Meanwhile, Touru, who used to take care of everything, feels liberated after meeting Hyung-gu. In spite of the language border and the difference of surroundings, the two young men from Korea and Japan go through a piece of a blossom of youth together. Through the use of a boat as a visual metaphor, this film raises the question of solitude of a man and communication among people.